I hope you already have July 28-30, 2017 marked on your calendar for the inaugural conference of the International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP). It will be held in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota (Minneapolis area). The first-ever International Germanic Genealogy Conference has already created quite a buzz. The host hotel where the class sessions will be held […]
Genealogical institutes are great places for week-long in-depth learning. The Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) is one place for that. Students sign up for one course that takes place from Monday through Friday. GRIP offers two different weeks in the summer and each offers classes on many topics and geographic areas. Air conditioned classrooms, […]
Budget and space dictate my book buying binges. It’s so tough to walk away from genealogy and history books. I see titles about the WPA, railroads, women’s history, and others but I am tormented. My winter 2016-17Minnesota History magazine arrived and it tells of three new railroad books: The Great Northern Railway Through Time (Dale […]
2017 is shaping up to be a busy year for classes, webinars, and seminars for me. I will be in many states and online! Join me at the events listed on my just updated speaking calendar. As I have said before, it’s fun to meet my blog readers. All my presentations have handouts that accompany […]
It’s been a year filled with too many low lights, but there are good things, too. I won’t detail all that has happened but here are a few of them. It’s the end of 2016 and I have great hope for a fantastic 2017. Please. 2016 was a big downer for me. Not the result […]
Earlier this week, I was adding up the number of ancestors and collateral relatives that I had as Illinois residents. To that I add those of my children. No wonder why I feel comfortable and knowledgeable about Illinois research! For full details and registration on this December 1st webinar, please visit Family Tree University.
I love California and especially the greater Bay Area. I lived in Mountain View for a year when my ex-husband was stationed at Moffett Naval Air Station and my oldest son was born in Mountain View. I haven’t been back there for a few years, but this weekend, Saturday, October 22nd, I will be there. […]
Bonus payment applications, 4 page questionnaires, membership applications, family assistance details, descendant membership applications, old soldier home applications, and more yield great details on military personnel from the 19th and 20th centuries. To learn more about these records found all across the U.S., join me tomorrow at the Minnesota Historical Society for a class that […]
The timeline of places where one of my great great grandfathers resided has always fascinated me. Today I was searching online using some of my more unusual ancestral surnames. I repeat this every few months in order to see what new items appear online. The result was that I added a street name for William […]
Learning more about your family members who served in the U.S. military is helped by a wide variety of records. Some are created after the person is no longer serving and some involve survivors of those who died in the war effort. In October, I am teaching a class on this topic: More than Pensions: […]